"It is very often asserted that fear is destructive. Yet this is not entirely true; when fear is felt about things that truly threaten security, it is protective. It is very fortunate that humans have an almost unlimited capacity for learning fears; otherwise we would have been eliminated long ago."

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Smiley Blanton

#Fear Quotes #Long Quotes #Unlimited Quotes

“If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.”
“There is nothing worse that you can do to a human being in America today than give them a mental illness kind of label and tell them they need drugs and these children are 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 years-old being treated in this manner,”
“It's was all the internet. I started writing songs in high school, right about the time of the onset of Napster. I went to college in Dallas, and when I'd get back from class I'd have fans emailing me from different areas of the country asking when the album was going to be out and when I was going on tour. It was crazy, because I didn't even consider myself a professional musician.”
“Comics taught me how to write, and also patience and confidence.”
“A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.”
“The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.”

Source : Daniel Tammet (2009). “Embracing the Wide Sky: A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind”, p.32, Simon and Schuster
“A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking”
“False zeal is every day bringing true zeal into disrepute.”

Source : Charles Tomlinson (1887). “Essays, Old and New”

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